Chittagong: A young man was stabbed to death by some unknown assailants at Chakfirani village in Lohagara upazila on Thursday morning.

The deceased is Md Mozammel Haque, about 35 years old, son of Mafjolur Rahman Rahman of the village.

Sarwar Hossain, sub-inspector of Lohagara Police Station, said the assailants swooped on Mozammel around 9:30am while he was returning home from a field and stabbed him indiscriminately, leaving him dead on the spot.

On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital for autopsy.

The motive behind the murder could not be known yet.